Strategy Lesson PlanTime: 45 min.
Co-Teachers: Alex Sears & Emily Timm_ Instructional Strategy: ___
TPA Approved Lesson Plan Template
Desired Results
Co-Teaching: List the co-teaching style you’ll be using and why you have chosen this co-teaching method.
Parallel Teaching- Because it requires equal teaching and effort from each partner. Both teachers will be involved during the whole lesson.
Learning Objective: Key Understanding(s) you intend students to obtain:
Students will understand that in a market economy income is earned in different ways.
The student will understand the concepts that measure the national economy.
Students will develop solutions to close the economic class gap.
Assessment Evidence
What do you want your students to know?
Students will know what it will feel like to be a part of a specific economic class.
Students will know the social, environmental, and economic impacts of poverty and scarcity.
Learning Objective: Key Understanding(s) you intend students to obtain:
Group Accountability (Formative Evaluation) How will you check to see whether your class has met your learning objectives?
Group assessment through oral questioning at the end of the activity.
Students will write a reflective paper to hand in at the end of the class.
What do you want students to be able to do?
Students will consider and write about ways to help alleviate poverty and create a just and sustainable world.
Students can identify multiple forms of income and their sources.
Students can define and give example of basic economic terms.
Learning Plan
What key vocabulary/language will students need to know to meet the learning objective?
Equity, Scarcity, Poverty, Developing Countries, Literacy Rate, Market Economy, Industrialized Countries, Gross Domestic Product, Third-World Countries
How will you teach this key vocabulary to enable students to meet the learning objective?
From previous vocabulary lesson.
Give a brief definition once we come across the word.
What is/are the Essential/Guiding Question(s) for this Lesson? (It should correlate to your learning objective.)
How did it feel to be in your economic class? Were you surprised to learn what percentage of the world’s pop. is poor? How are poverty and hunger connected to other global issues such as population growth, environmental degradation, discrimination, and conflict? What do you think some solutions are to these issues?
How will you differentiate for all the learners.
Paraprofessional assistance
If a student is having a hard time understanding concepts, one teacher will help him/her while the other continues the lesson.
Materials/Resources Required:
Construction paper squares (4 colors), Master readings, Large space in room
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES
Method/Strategy(What will you do? What do you expect students to do? Include set induction and closing.)
Time Allotment
Bell Ringers
2 minutes
News
3-5 minutes
Preparation for Activity (handing out cards, moving desks, etc.)
3 minutes
Activity
20 minutes
Assessment Questions
8 minutes
Reflection paper
7 minutes